Process of making combined cast-steel and wrought-iron yokes.



A. GOPONY.

PROCESS OF MAKING COMBINED CAST STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON YOKES,

APPLICATION FILED MAF..23,1914.

IN V EN TOR lUlrzd fi wny g /%z/ Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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' rigidly and permanently connected together.

.- her with the ends thereof elongated and reiron straps-are ings inposition on and State of Illinois, have invented a new used to form theclip for connecting the two .shows the clip-forming member after itstraps are upset to secure or crucaoo', ILLINOIS, assidno'n 'ro WILLIAMH. mmnn, or

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CAST-STEEL AND WBOUGHT-IBON YOKES.

- Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

PROCESS OF MAKIN G COMBINED 1 ,128,296, Specification or fitters Patent.

Application flied March as, 1 14. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern: This bar or strap then has its ends 11-11 Beit known that I, ALFRED COPONY, a offset laterally and transversely ofthe 11min subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, portion 12 thereofafter which it is ben Into residing in Chicago, in the county of 00ksubstantially elongated U-shape, sa h???" at 13 in Fig.3.

and useful Improvement in Processes of seen that the offset portions 11of the strap Making Combined Cast-Steel and Wrought- In this figure itwillng Iron Yokes, of which the following is a other horizontallyextending portions .14,14..

specification. Y In Fig. 4 a piece This invention relates toimprovements in shown which is employed to form the bindprocess of'making combined cast steel and ing ,or connecting clip, said piecehaving wrought iron yokes. rounded edges 16, 16. The member 15 is Anobject of the invention is to provide a next out or notched as at 17 tothe form process or method involving ew' steps for shown in Fig. 5. Theends 18 of the clipmaking ayoke for railway draft rigging, formingpiece'are next forgted and elonwhich yoke is composed partly of wroughtated, as shown in Fig. 6, a or which the iron straps and partly of steelcastings all orgedends are bent at right angles to the .main portionthereof as shown in ig. 7 the The invention furthermore consists in theclip or binding member now being in the novel steps and the novelcombinations of form of a U. the steps herein shown, described orclaimed. Two wrought iron-members are rovided In the drawing forming a,part of this 01 each yoke and m formed intot e shape specification, allthe figures are perspective shown in Fig. 3. The same are then broughtviews. 1 1 together sideby side as shown in Fig.8 and Figure 1 showsoneof the plain ieces of the U- haped clip placed therebetween and wroughtiron which forms a part 0 the fin-'- the ends 19 of the clip bent overand around ished yoke. Fig. 2 shows the same, strap of the centralportions of the yoke straps asv wrought iron with the ends thereofofi'set shown at 20 in Fig. 8. laterally and transversely relatively tothe are provided of the form shown in Fig. 9, main central'portion. Fig.3 shows the each casting 21 being provided with two strap bent into asubstantially elongated U- extending slots 22 22 and a shape. Fig.4showsa piece i slot 23.

\ 22, 22 are adapted to receive the 5 *ofiset ends of the yoke arms'andthe steel as [castings are placed thereon. as shown in Fig. beennotched. Fig. 6 shows the same mem-' -10. The extreme ends 24 of thewrought wrought iron straps of the yoke. Fi

flefi wn at 25, thereby permanently and rig 'idly connecting the steelcastings to the wrought iron yokes, the latter: of course beingfurt-herunited 'y the clip at the rear.

From the preceding description it will be seen that I have provided acombined cast steel and wrought iron yoke which is adaptduced inthickness. Fig. 7 shows the clip; forming member after itis bent intoU-shape and as it appears before applied to mews wroughtiron straps ofthe yoke. Fig. 8 shows the two bent. wrought .iron straps united by theclips. Fig. 9 shows one, of the steel castings employed in the yoke.Fig. 10 shows the, two steel castthe ends of the having slotted castingswrought iron members forming 'thei' arms coupler connecting k and rearends of the yoke and Fig. 'l'lillus- The process which trates the laststep in the process "and the ing the same consists finished articlewherein the ends of the the parts firmlytogether. I

said dre'f bg fiifienotes a bar or strap I cleun g of wroughtironcutinto proper like adapted to. receive a.

I ave devised fol-{Flak of any expensive or complicated machinery. 7

ed to'beused in. a horizontal position and through the slots,23l I ofwrought iron, 15 is Two steel castings then hammered or upset as g offew and "siinple 1 steps and may be carried out without thev combinedeaststeel and wrought irQn yokes (iastings' .aiid upsetting the extreme.enls of which consists in bending two wrought; iron the straps. l0

strap ixgg substantially U-shape anilaten Signed 13 day 9f March 19 l 4in the ally 0 setting the ends of each strap whzgepresence of twosubscribing witnesses. l by when said straps are placed side by side,ALFRED COPON the ends ghereof ere spaced apart; provid- Witnesses:

mg two slotted castings; and then inserting GEORGE A. JOHNSON,

(:he ends of said straps in the slots of said Wmmm A. Gmcsn.

